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The fruitful collaboration between poet Gil Scott-Heron and multi-instrumentalist Brian Jackson will be the focus of an upcoming reggae tribute album. The LP was revealed Wednesday on what would have been Scott-Heron’s 71st birthday. Carry Me Home. A Reggae Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, due out May 27th, …

Jamaican dancehall singer Buju Banton, one of reggae‘s most popular artists before his career was curtailed by a 10-year prison sentence, was released from a federal prison Friday after serving seven years behind bars. The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Banton had been released from Georgia’s McRae Correctional Facility, …